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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2005
Lawrence S. Bernstein, Lexington, MA (US);
Steven M. Adler-golden, Newtonville, MA (US);
Timothy C. Perkins, Brighton, MA (US);
Alexander Berk, Canton, MA (US);
Robert Y. Levine, Bedford, MA (US);
Lawrence S. Bernstein, Lexington, MA (US);
Steven M. Adler-Golden, Newtonville, MA (US);
Timothy C. Perkins, Brighton, MA (US);
Alexander Berk, Canton, MA (US);
Robert Y. Levine, Bedford, MA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A method of automatically determining a measure of atmospheric aerosol optical properties using a multi- or hyper-spectral, multi-pixel image. A plurality of spectrally-diverse pixels are resolved from the image. A statistical spectral deviation of the spectrally-diverse pixels is determined, and then corrected for non-aerosol transmittance losses. One or more wavelength-dependent aerosol optical depths are derived from the statistical spectral deviation. Wavelength-dependent gaseous optical depths can be derived from the statistical spectral deviation.